Reading up on Nano Banana

An isometric pixel-art map of NYC was created by using a few dozen hand-tuned AI outputs to fine-tune Qwen, enabling seamless tile generation at massive scale with zero handwritten code.

Google regained the AI lead over OpenAI by combining deep research, custom hardware, and leadership changes, culminating in Gemini's rise and a major search overhaul.

A blog post describes the author's attempt to generate a font using LLMs, revisiting a 2019 GAN-based prototype, but the results are widely criticized as ugly and not novel.